By David Macdonald
Afghanistan is the world's biggest manufacturer of opium and heroin. This ebook explores the devastating impression that the medication alternate has had at the Afghan humans. writer David Macdonald has labored as a medication consultant to the UN. in line with his vast event, this publication breaks down the myths surrounding the cultivation and intake of gear, delivering a close research of the background of drug use in the kingdom. He examines the impression of over 25 years of continuing clash, and indicates how poverty and instability has resulted in a rise in medicinal drugs intake. He additionally considers the hot upward thrust within the use of pharmaceutical medicinal drugs, leading to risky chemical cocktails and analyses the impact of Afghanistan's drug exchange on neighbouring international locations.
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By early 2006 three NSPs existed in Kabul city with plans for the scaling-up of such services to other areas of the country. 33 At the same time it should be recognised that harm reduction services can also be used effectively with non-injecting drug users. Certainly the World Drug Report of 2000 contained unsubstantiated data regarding problem drug use in Afghanistan. While several global maps showing changes in ‘drug abuse’ have Afghanistan represented by the colour code for data ‘not available’, Map 9 entitled ‘Changes in abuse of heroin and other opiates, 1998 (or latest year available)’ shows Afghanistan as having a ‘large increase’, yet no reliable national, or even provincial, study had been carried out in Afghanistan that would have provided such data, although ‘guesstimates’ and anecdotal accounts might have suggested this to be the case—hardly the type of data to be included unacknowledged in a World Drug Report.
Inevitably it has to take liberties with the truth, a commodity hard to grasp in a country where scorpion tales abound and the boundaries between fact and fiction are frequently blurred. Public truth remains where it has always been, on the shadowy margins between media images and the ideologies of the powerful. The book’s main purpose is to try and clarify what drugs mean in Afghanistan and to the people who consume them, why they use them, and the types of problems that arise from their consumption.
The resultant table provided a mish-mash of incomparable and largely meaningless data. Five districts out of nearly 50 in eastern Afghanistan were hardly representative or comparable with national data from countries with populations of well over 100 million. 23 THE SEVEN DEADLY POLITICAL SINS It is, of course, not only in Afghanistan that suspect methodologies and distortions of dubious facts contribute to the dearth of reliable information about the magnitude and nature of the drug problem. Professor Cindy Fazey, who worked for several years with the UNDCP at its headquarters in Vienna as one of the organisation’s first demand reduction specialists, claims that globally many governments ‘obscure Macdonald 01 chap01 23 6/12/06 16:44:00 24 Drugs in Afghanistan the reality of the world situation of drug use and abuse’ for a wide variety of reasons that she astutely encapsulates as the seven deadly political sins.
